For this first day, Sophia and I decide to drive to the south of the island where the Easterly wind is predicted to blow strong and side shore. After just 2km we stop for a lonely hitchhiker standing in short pants! He’s also heading south, our car’s not really that full so we give him a ride. We learn a few things by chatting with him about his trip here and he gives us some good tips that Sophia writes down on our map. We leave the dry volcanic zone behind us and the landscapes are getting greener and greener as we get closer to our destination. The weather is just beautiful and so is the Vik area: wide black beaches, rivers, “wild” horses and sheep living at the bottom of green cliffs, a few farms here and there…and the glaciers just up there, creating the most incredible water falls you can imagine. It’s definitely a nice place to be a tourist!